Twelve Against Empire; The Anti-Imperialists, 1898-1900
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1968. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. xvi, [2], 310 pages. Illustrations. Occasional footnotes. Not on sources. Reference Notes. Index. Some edge soiling. DJ is worn, torn, soiled, and chipped. Robert L. Beisner is a former president of the Society for American Historians and emeritus professor of American history at American University. He took his Ph.D. degree at the University of Chicago. His dissertation on the American anti-imperialist movement of 1898-1900 won the Allan Nevins Prize. As a book--Twelve Against Empire: The American Anti-Imperialists, 1898-1900--it won the John Dunning Prize. His, From the Old Diplomacy to the New, 1865-1900, has been widely used in courses in American diplomatic history. His 2006 biography, Dean Acheson: A Life in the Cold War, won the Robert H. Ferrell Award from the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, the Douglas Dillon Award from the American Academy of Diplomacy, and the Arthur Ross Silver Medal Book Award from the Council on Foreign Relations. Derived from a Kirkus review: Until almost the end of the 19th century, the United States had concentrated its energies on development and expansion on the continent. With the election of McKinley in 1897, however, began America's first--but not last--period of overt imperialism; and with it consequently sprang up America's first--but not last--violent movement of anti-imperialism. The anti-imperialists, inflamed by the American annexation of Hawaii, Guam, Puerto Rico and the Philippines, were the great dissenters of their time; they reacted as violently to the jargon of ""manifest destiny"". This is the story of those dissidents, whose ideals were embodied in the principles of such men as Carl Schurz, Edward Atkinson, Charles Francis Adams, Charles Eliot Norton, and George F. Hoar--""mugwumps,"" or political independents, all--who headed the anti-imperialist movement. And it is, of course, the story of the anti-imperialist movement itself. Condition: Good / Fair.
Keywords: William McKinley, Charles Francis Adams, Anti-Imperialism, Edward Atkinson, Mugwumps, Andrew Carnegie, Expansionism, Edwin Lawrence Godkin, George Frisbie Hoar, William James, Charles Eliot Norton, Thomas Reed, Theodore Roosevelt, Spanish-American W
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